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W. A. PHARES.

, END GATE. No, 354,341. Patented Dec. 14, 1886.

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END-GATE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 354,341, dated December 14, 1886.

Application filed October 25, 1886. Serial No. 217,127.

T0 at whom it may concern.-

Be it known that 1, WILLIAM A. PHARES, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Fowler, in the county of Benton and State of Indiana, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in End-Gates; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, which will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, which form a part of this specification, and in which- Figure 1 is a perspective View showing the rear end of a wagonbox provided with my improved end-gate. Fig. 2 is a similar view showing the gate tilted out at its upper edge for leading into the wagon. Fig. 3 is a similar view showing the gate tilted out at the lower edge for dumping the contents of the wagon, and Fig. 4 is a rear view of the gate.

Similar numerals of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

My invention has relation to that class of end-gates for wagon-bodies .in which the gate is provided with side pieces fitting over the rear ends of the side-boards of the wagonbox, and in which the gate may be tilted outward with its upper as well as with its lower edge, according to whether the wagon is to be loaded or unloaded; and it consists in the improved construction and combination of parts of such an end-gate, as hereinafter more fully described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, the numeral 1 indicates the bottom of the wagon-box, having the end cleat, 2, and 3 8 are the sideboards of the box, the said parts being of the usual construction. The end-gate 4 is formed with two triangular side pieces, 5 5, at its side edges, fitting and bearing against the outer sides of the side-boards at the rear ends of the same.

- Eyes or staples 6 are secured in the outer sides of the side-boards near the upper corners, and rods 7 are hinged to the upper corners of the end-gate and pass through the eyes, having their ends 8 hooked and fitting in staples 9 upon the sides of the side-boards when the .end-gate is folded up, turn-buttons 1O bearing with their free ends against the upper sides of the hooks, retaining them in the staples.

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.have brace portions 16 extending obliquely from their outer ends down to near the lower ends of the rods. Turn-buttons 17 bear with their free ends against the horizontal portions of the sliding rods when the pivoted bolts are in their perforations.

It will now be seen that when the upper hooks are disengaged from their staplesthe rods will slide through the eyes, and will allow the end-gate to tilt out with its upper edge, the hooks at last stopping the gate from tilting out too far, the lower edge of the gate hinging with the pivoted bolts, which remain in their perforations, while they allow the gate to swing upon them.

The side pieces of the endgate will, together with the gate, serve to make an inclined chute, at which the wagon-box may be loaded, or from which the contents of the wagon may be shoveled or scooped out; hutwhen it is desired to dump the contents of the wagon the turnbuttons of the vertically-sliding rods are disengaged, when the rods may be turned with the horizontal portions outward, and the rods may be raised, drawing the bolts out of the perforationsand allowing the gate to swing with its lower edge outward. In this manner the end-gate may make a chute as well as a swinging gate, allowing the contents to be dumped, and the parts securing the gate and allowing it to be operated in the described manner are of such a simple construction that they may be easily and cheaply produced, and will be very durable and not liable to get out of order.

Having thus described my invention, Iclaim and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States I The combination of an end-gate for awagonbox, rods having hooked ends and having their inner ends pivoted to the upper corners of the gate and having the hooked ends engaging staples upon the side-boards and sliding in eyes upon the upper rear corners of the sideboards, turn-buttons for holding the hooks in and bolts hinged to the lower ends of the rods the staples, Vertically-sliding rods in staples In testimony that I claim the foregoing as upon the lower portion of the endgate, havmy own I have hereunto affixed my signature 1o ing horizontally-bent upper ends and oblique I in presence of two witnesses.

braces, turn-buttons for holding the rods down, WILLIAM A. PHARES and fitting in perforations in the end eleat of Witnesses: the bottom of the wagon-box, as and for the FRANK BAILEY, purpose shown and set forth. O. BOSWELL. 

